Personal attacks
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78% of 18 sponsored bills got out of committee; the average for the Arizona House is 34%. Ranks 3rd of 56, where 1st is the highest share.
The share of bills Montenegro sponsored that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, ranked within the Arizona House. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position as well as effort.
6 measures against State House Republicans. Montenegro reported $218.0K in the 2026 cycle, in the top tenth of State House Republicans (median $33.7K). The policy areas Montenegro talks about and legislates on agree at 0.57 on a 0–1 scale, in the top half of State House Republicans.
The measures on which Montenegro sits furthest from the middle of State House Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Out of committee
Arizona House average 34% · ranks 3rd of 56
Attendance
Arizona House average 93.0% · ranks 7th of 60 · 1,672 roll calls
Itemized, 2026
State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 232nd of 2,521
Party unity
Arizona House average 93.3% · ranks 13th of 60 · 45 votes against the majority of Arizona House Republicans
Talk-to-bills agreement
State House Republicans average 0.53 · ranks 186th of 504
CSIP ideology
Right of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.03
Peer group: State House Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Montenegro, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Montenegro is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
Montenegro claims credit more than 92% of State House Republicans. Credit claiming in 32% of 82 statements, against 13% for the average State House Republican; 56th of 791.
An AI model reads each of Montenegro’s 82 statements in the AZ 2025–26 session (82 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State House Republicans and ranked among them.
Share of statements carrying each label, the AZ 2025–26 session
| Row | Montenegro | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 52% | 32% |
| Credit claiming | 32% | 13% |
| Policy criticism | 16% | 9% |
| Personal attacks | 1% | 3% |
| Bipartisanship | 1% | 2% |
statements classified
82 posts on X.
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 82 |
The thick bar is Montenegro; the thin grey bar is the average State House Republicans. A longer thick bar means Montenegro does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Montenegro used extreme labels in 1.2% of statements, below the peer average. 1 statement, most often aimed at Democratic Party; peers 1.4%.
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Share of statements per month, the AZ 2025–26 session
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 10 | 0.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% | 30.0% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’25 | 5 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’25 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Apr ’25 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’25 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jun ’25 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’25 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’25 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’25 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’25 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Nov ’25 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Dec ’25 | 5 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jan ’26 | 5 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’26 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Apr ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’26 | 6 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jun ’26 | 10 | 0.0% | 20.0% | 60.0% | 10.0% | 40.0% | 0.0% |
| Jul ’26 | 9 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’26 | 6 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’26 | 7 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Oct ’26 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the AZ 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. 20 months are hatched here; 4 of them have no statements.
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Personal attacks
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Feb 26, 2025 · Posts on X (state legislators) · personal attacks; policy discussion; Government Operations and Politics; target: liberal judges · Source
Credit claiming
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Sep 29, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Education; Taxation · Source
Extreme label
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Aug 6, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · extreme label “communist” aimed at Democratic Party · Source
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · policy discussion · Government Operations and Politics · target: liberal judgesSource
Newest first, the AZ 2025–26 session
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 82 posts on X.
Education is what Montenegro talks about most: 23% of policy statements, above the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.57 on a 0–1 scale (State House Republicans average 0.53; 186th of 504).
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Montenegro talks about. The bills Montenegro sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
Share of policy statements by area, the AZ 2025–26 session
| Row | Montenegro | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 23% | 15% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 21% | 18% |
| Taxation | 21% | 8% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 19% | 12% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 14% | 6% |
The thick bar is the share of Montenegro’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State House Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 35%. Grey ticks are the State House Republicans averages.
| Area | Talks about | State House Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State House Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 23% | 15% | 3% | 9% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 21% | 18% | 28% | 12% |
| Taxation | 21% | 8% | 4% | 11% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 19% | 12% | 8% | 2% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 14% | 6% | 15% | 4% |
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State House Republicans average 0.53. Ranks 186th of 504.
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Montenegro legislates on exactly the areas Montenegro talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Montenegro sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Montenegro sits at +0.34 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 52% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.31 to +0.37, which understates the uncertainty; from 462 donors and 585 roll calls.
CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.31 to +0.37. From 462 donors and 585 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Montenegro, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Montenegro’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Montenegro |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Republicans | 2917 | +0.4 | 48% |
| Arizona House | 60 | +0.2 | 73% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 71% |
Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Montenegro in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Montenegro.
Montenegro reported $218.0K in the 2026 cycle, 6.5 times the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 98% of itemized individual money came from Arizona.
Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 130 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $104.0K | 47.7% |
| PACs and other committees | $114.1K | 52.3% |
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $57.0K |
| 2022 cycle | $97.4K |
| 2024 cycle | $166.6K |
| 2026 cycle | $218.0K |
Itemized contributions by donor state. 98% came from Arizona.
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Arizona | $101.7K |
| California | $750 |
| Minnesota | $500 |
| Texas | $500 |
| Illinois | $250 |
| Colorado | $250 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| New York | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Massachusetts | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Florida | No data |
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from Arizona
Of itemized individual dollars
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Arizona. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Montenegro voted with the majority of Arizona House Republicans on 97.5% of party-line votes and missed 0.5% of 1,672 roll calls. Arizona House on average: 93.3% party unity, 93.0% attendance. Across all roll calls, Montenegro voted against the majority of Arizona House Republicans 45 times.
1,672 roll calls Montenegro could vote on in the AZ 2025–26 session, compared with Arizona House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Montenegro voted with the majority of Arizona House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of Arizona House Republicans
Party unity 97.5%, Arizona House average 93.3%, ranks 13th of 60. 1,672 roll calls in the AZ 2025–26 session.
The thick bar is Montenegro, the thin grey bar the Arizona House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
| Row | Montenegro | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 99.5% | 93.0% |
| Party unity | 97.5% | 93.3% |
A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the AZ 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 0–22 · R 31–0Democrats 0 yea, 22 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 0 nay | much discussed | |
| Jun 13, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 17–5 · R 30–0Democrats 17 yea, 5 nay; Republicans 30 yea, 0 nay | became law · party crossover | |
| Jun 13, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 2–20 · R 31–0Democrats 2 yea, 20 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Jun 13, 2026 | Yea | With majority | fail | D 2–20 · R 19–12Democrats 2 yea, 20 nay; Republicans 19 yea, 12 nay | party crossover | |
| Jun 13, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 5–17 · R 31–0Democrats 5 yea, 17 nay; Republicans 31 yea, 0 nay | became law · party crossover |
Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.
The colleagues who voted the same way as Montenegro most often
The colleagues who voted the same way as Montenegro least often
The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.
AZ 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Montenegro sponsored 18 bills in the AZ 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 90 others. 78% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Arizona House average 34%; 3rd of 56).
The bills Montenegro sponsored and cosponsored in the AZ 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.
Counts for the AZ 2025–26 session
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 18 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 0 |
| Cosponsored | 90 | 82 | 76 | 63 | 23 |
Ink blocks are bills Montenegro sponsored, ochre blocks bills Montenegro cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Arizona House average 34%. Ranks 3rd of 56.
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Montenegro, by number of shared bills in the AZ 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Montenegro’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| HCR 2063 | Yvonne Fedderson; death resolution | Cosponsor | Jun 13, 2026 | Introduced | Unassigned | House First Reading. Jun 13, 2026 |
| HR 2008 | Daniel Kayde Blackman; death resolution | Cosponsor | Jun 10, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Unassigned | Transmit to Secretary of State Jun 10, 2026 |
| HB 4161 | higher education; 2026-2027 | Cosponsor | Jun 9, 2026 | Became law | Education(model) | Signed by Governor Jun 13, 2026 |
| HB 4159 | environment; 2026-2027 | Cosponsor | Jun 9, 2026 | Became law | Environmental Protection(model) | Signed by Governor Jun 13, 2026 |
| HB 4155 | amusements; 2026-2027 | Cosponsor | Jun 9, 2026 | Became law | Commerce(model) | Signed by Governor Jun 13, 2026 |
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Montenegro’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Montenegro’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Montenegro posts with a vision model.
Official site
www.azleg.gov/House/House-member/?legislature=56&session=127&legislator=2183Last crawled Oct 1, 2026
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.
No images from Montenegro’s posts have been described.
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
61 turns, Jan 9, 2023 to Jun 12, 2026
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.
The headline is the measure on which Montenegro is most unusual among State House Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.
The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.
A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
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